Mr Bedingfield, please change the title – this is getting embarrassing
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July 9, 2013 at 8:32am
Glenn Bedingfield, former Super One reporter and Maltastar editor and now communications chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is still relatively new to the job – four months is not a long time, so let’s be charitable.
But surely experience is not of the essence here, because what we are talking about is a modicum of intelligence and the barest bit of common sense?
He has uploaded on the Ministry’s website travel advice re Egypt, with the title that is actually the instructions he was given to issue it.
Come on, Glenn – this isn’t Maltastar. Must do better.
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http://www.foreign.gov.mt/default.aspx?MDIS=21&NWID=4528
He might want to look at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth website and see how they put out travel advice.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt
Cannot wait to see the other new arrivals operating.
Stupid amateurs.
I didn’t see it at first, hilarious.
Reminds me of the old time concert hall soloist, who would routinely sing ‘Please turn overrr’, at the end of each page of lyric.
The English used is quite amateurish to say the least.
If this is the best he can do after four months, I wonder what we’ll be getting in a few years’ time. Maybe he will have learned to actually put the name of the country concerned in the title, at least.
I wonder whether his computer has an ‘any’ key.
Jahasra kemm ghadhom lura…..
If he’s chief, what’s the reflection on the rest?
Alas, for me, ‘meritocracy’ will never have the same meaning again.
This government is really sending out a positive message to investors.
Delays in issuing visas discussed in meetings with China, Russia ..
maltatoday.com.mt/…/Delays-in-issuing-visas-discussed-in-meetings-with-C
You are being too kind, Daphne. He was an editor so being new to the job is not an excuse. Yes the standards were never high at Maltastar but all that says is that he was and is not very good at his job.
I had always thought that ‘unprecedented’ was an ‘either or’ term where something was either unprecedented or it was not. So can anyone please help explain what “almost unprecedented” means?
ref. TOM 09.07.2013
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/marsaxlokk-mayor-pleads-with-cabinet-for-delimara-park.477254
Maybe it’s like being a little bit pregnant.
He seems to have copied the “subject” line of the email in which the suggested text was sent to him by his experts.
Tsk. Tsk.
Seems you’ve got a fan or two at the Ministry. The title of the article has been changed (still not referring to ‘Egypt’ though).
It reflects the YES MINISTER type of imbeciles that have been kicked up to their level of perfect incompetence.
The circus is in the town of Marsaxlokk this morning.
Just look at the body language of the clowns while someone is addressing them – see video below.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/local/marsaxlokk-mayor-pleads-with-cabinet-for-delimara-park.477254
Made in China bridges.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130709/odd-news/two-buses-crash-into-river-after-bridge-collapse.477229
Was CCCC involved in the construction of this bridge?
Frankly, our expectation ‘goalposts’ for this lot are so, so low that relatively minor cockups of this sort will become less and less noticed, in the light of the far greater ‘grassezzi’ that they commit and will continue to commit. It is a remarkable reflection on our society’s perceptions that, consciously or unconsciously, we have high standards of expectation when it comes to PN – and we frequently hang them out to dry for relatively minor infringements – whereas we expect so very, very little from the present lot that, by and large, we tend to overlook all but the very worst of their actions
Daphne they do read your blog at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That entry was amended immediately.
Finally, a mention somewhere in the local media about Dalli and Mary Swan.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Dalli-wades-through-miasma-of-unsubstantiated-allegations-20130709
Tuesday 9 July 2013 – 09:11
“The villa, rented for an entire year by Tyre Ltd on 14 July 2012 through the professional office of his daughter, hosted the philanthropists, among them Mary Swann, a millionaire residing in Sliema, Malta.”
I have no words.
According to the Official communication issued on the 13 March the Minister / Ministry was referred to as Minister / Ministry OF Foreign Affairs and not FOR Foreign Affairs. Which is correct?
[Daphne – The former, Minister of Foreign Affairs. You can truncate it to Foreign Minister, too. That’s the British way.]
Basta taghna lkoll. Le, din il-porkerija taghhom biss.